My wife and I consciously set about to make our daughter feel that she is special because of the way she knows how to choose her foods. We used role models. Since we live in Los Angeles, she knows some…

I have parents tell me that they dread holidays because the grandparents try and slip meat and sweets to the children. Grandma is insulted if everyone doesn’t eat her turkey or ham. She considers it a comment on her cooking….

“Eat! There are starving children who would love to have that food.” How many of us heard that when we were growing up? It was our first taste of guilt. Eating became a moral issue. Years ago, there was a…

If children are allowed to eat a low-fat diet of fruits, vegetables, and grains, they will end up looking thinner than the average American child. They will also be healthier than the average child. When judging how thin your child…

Just like adults, children exhibit different growth patterns. In our culture, it’s not that unusual to find men six-foot-six or five-foot-five. At either height they’re considered healthy and normal. We can accept the same variation in children. If your child…

Tragically, the children of America are getting fatter. Studies reported in Prevention magazine found that children weighed an average of 11.4 pounds more in 1988 than they did in 1975, even though average height measurements had not changed. In other…

The most recent experiment was reported in 1992 in the New England Journal of Medicine. In this instance, researchers videotaped preschoolers who were given their choice of several different types of foods. The scientists allowed the children to eat whatever…

To begin with, in my opinion, the dairy group could better be called the junk food group. Studies have proven that humans don’t benefit as much as was once thought from eating dairy products. Dr. Benjamin Spock, for 50 years…

What I’m saying is that babies know when and how much they should be eating. There is a part of the brain called the appestat. Just as a thermostat regulates the temperature in your house, the appestat regulates the appetite…